THE traditional view that the knowledge of astronomy of the Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, a view to ... achievement of the peoples of Mesopotamia in this branch of science ...

The dyes indigo and safflower were used in ancient Egypt, and in Mesopotamia there were the beginnings of the petroleum industry, with extensive use of bitumen for cement and asphalt.

The ancient Egyptians were black Africans. The Phoenicians (today's light-skinned Egyptians) are originally descendants of Lebanese traders from the Mesopotamia area. They began settling in Egypt ...

Archaeologists have made a major breakthrough after unearthing a mysterious 7,000-year-old figurine that resembles an alien.

When people think of ancient civilizations, their minds often drift to the best pyramids of ancient Egypt or the Roman ruins and structures still in use today. Yet scattered across the pages of ...

Dr Evans, a senior lecturer in diaspora history, said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for ...

Discover Ancient Egypt, the fascinating Maya Civilisation ... Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Learn about what life was like in this civilisation.

Including the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the ziggurats of Mesopotamia, and the palaces of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece, ...

The pyramid was built over 5,000 years ago, even before the pyramids of Egypt and Mesopotamia, a time when archeologists had believed the Amazon was populated only by hunter-gatherers.

This is a bronze hook from Ancient Egypt. This object or artefact takes us back over three thousand years to the New Kingdom. In Ancient Egypt, when someone important died, their body was ...

This enthralling history of ancient Mesopotamia explores what unearthed clay and stone tablets tell us about the intimate lives of people who lived 4,000 years ago; from the imprint of a child’s ...